Electronics and Appliance Stores - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2004
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Ron Shaich’s Café Society

Pain. My partner, Louis Kane, and I incorporated in 1981, went public in 1991, and had 250 stores by 1993. How did Panera come into the mix? In 1993 we Au Bon Pain acquired a... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places

01 Apr 1997
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Manager's Notebook

customer information. But now, conveniences such as Web browsers and "smart cards" (which today are used to store electronic money in several European markets and, in the... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

01 Feb 1998
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Short Takes

intercepted them at consumer electronics stores and followed them home to talk about what they bought and why," says Fournier. "We then followed... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Jun 1996
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1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

the problems that people face when they have to make decisions." At the same time, Clark went on to note, today's business world is mediated by electronic communication, and information technology offers... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

a doctor. Watson scanned and stored medical journals and textbooks, but it also began to problem-solve. At the Cleveland Clinic, for instance, which is affiliated with Case... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music

intense pricing wars by electronics chains and discount department stores destabilized account bases." Some record executives have admitted to losing touch with their audiences... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

19 Aug 2024
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Quantum Leap

transformative also make it fiendishly difficult to implement—and almost impossible for anyone but professional physicists to fully understand. The bits that classical computers use to store data and perform... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

leading apparel maker Liz Claiborne Inc. (LC) were coming off a sixteen-year high that had begun to wane in 1992. A combination of factors — the national recession, weak spending on women's apparel, increased competition, department View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

Commons Project, a nonprofit that in April launched Common Health, an Android app that allows users to securely download their health information from Electronic Health Records (EHR) and lab sources (similar... View Details

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